It is
an indispensable fact that in the absence of love for God resides a lust
for power; a yearning to become God. In Sinisterism: Secular Religion
of the Lie, a brilliant new book by my good friend and colleague, Bruce
Walker, Walker uses “Sinisterism,” a term he invented, to denote this
godless, narcissistic, relativistic lust for power whose legacy lived
particularly in the twentieth century and prevails to this day. As he
writes: “I call all the people who lust for power, ‘Sinisterists’ and
their political system ‘Sinisterism.’ The word sinister comes from the
Latin root word for left, which has come to mean creepy and nasty—‘sinister,’
in modern usage—so ‘Sinisterist’ and ‘Sinisterism’ fit what I mean, well.
Sinisterists believe in nothing, really, but power. They use power to
hurt to bewilder, to dismay, to complicate, to rob, to cheat, and to use.”

In my
humble opinion, Sinisterism has been the central governing element of
Nazis, Soviets, fascist dictators, militant secularists, radical liberals
and the pathetic lowlives at the ACLU. Their collectively shared hatred
for God, Christianity, moral values and the value of human life instills
in them a spirit of Sinisterism. Contemporary liberals have sought to
eliminate acknowledgement of the prevalence of Sinisterism by coming up
with labels to equate Nazism with fascism, Christianity and conservatism
and liberalism with liberty and liberation. But as Walker writes, “The
term ‘liberal’ has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with
coercion.”

Furthermore,
Walker effectively deconstructs the semantic stigmas deceptively conjured
up by liberals to euphemize their inherent evil. As he writes: “The reality
is that Sinisterists sometimes call themselves ‘socialists’ or ‘liberals’
or ‘progressives,’ and that they sometimes call themselves ‘Marxists’
or ‘Trotskyites’ or ‘revolutionaries,’ or that they also sometimes call
themselves ‘fascists’ or ‘national socialists’ or ‘Phallangists’ but they
are all sibling Sinisterists.”

As I
mentioned earlier, when liberals are not trying to pass Nazism off as
“fascism,” they are attempting to pass it off as an extreme form of “conservatism”
and an inexorable byproduct of Christianity. In 2003, on his show Scarborough
Country, former congressman and current MSNBC personality Joe Scarborough
shed light on a college textbook that grouped Rush Limbaugh and Ronald
Reagan with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini as “conservatives.” Now
how exactly could Hitler, a man who was a strong supporter of social welfare
programs, gun control, animal rights, government funding for the arts
and bans against smoking in public get away with being called a “conservative”?

The
reason is simple. Liberals are such shameless liars and persistent revisionists
that they will malign anyone they disagree with as Hitleresque, from the
spastic Iraq war protestors comparing George W. Bush to Hitler to Sen.
Dick Durbin comparing American troops to “Nazis.” Perhaps this is on account
of the equivalence of their deep-seated rejection of God to Hitler’s militant
rejection of God which led to one of the ugliest mass murders in human
history. But wait a minute, wasn’t Hitler a Christian also?

Well
if being a Christian means claiming the role of God for one’s self and
coercing the subjects of one’s rule to shake off their beliefs in Christ
and pledge a new allegiance to the Third Reich, then perhaps Hitler was
a Christian. But this certainly doesn’t explain why the Nazis harassed,
arrested, tortured and murdered Christian clergymen for espousing their
beliefs, or for that matter why during the first five years of the Nazis’
rule a majority of concentration camp inmates were Christians, Jews being
late arrivals for the most part, nor does it explain why on November 4,
1936, the Nazis ordered the removal of crucifixes from schools in the
Oldenburg area on account of the notion that they were “symbols of superstition.”

To set
the record straight: Hitler was not a Christian, the Nazis were not Christians,
Nazi Germany was not a Christian theocracy. It was a militant secularist,
socialist regime that championed the sovereignty of man rather than the
sovereignty of God. In February 1937, Hanns Kerrl, Minister of Religion
in the Third Reich said: “The question of the divinity of Christ is ridiculous
and inessential. A new answer has arisen as to what Christ and Christianity
are: Adolph Hitler.” University Nazis in Keil wrote in 1935: “We Germans
are heathens and want no more Jewish religion in our Germany. We no longer
believe in the Holy Ghost; we believe in the Holy Blood.” Baldur von Schirach,
head of the Hitler Youth, before World War II said, “Our religion is Germany.”
In fact, grace before meals given to poor children by the Nazi Welfare
Committee ended: “For this food, my Fuehrer, my thanks I render.” Maybe
I’m just confused, but I can’t precisely recall Jesus ever taking on the
name of “Fuehrer” but then maybe I haven’t reading my college textbooks
closely enough.

In his
1939 book, Days of Our Lives, Pierre van Passen wrote: “Germany is much
farther on the road to dechristianization than the Soviet Union, even
if the churches in the Reich remain on and the incense still rises from
the altars. In the place of God has come the would be almighty state which,
insatiable as the Moloch of old, demands man’s entire devotion, mentally
and physically.” As Walker writes, “Heinrich Himmler despised Christianity
and members of the SS had to formally renounce their Christian faith and
formally become agnostic in order to become a member of the Schultzstaffel,”
and, “The only people who opposed the Nazis solely on grounds of moral
conscience when opposing on grounds of moral conscience placed them in
mortal danger were Christians.” As Franklin D. Roosevelt said on January
6, 1942: “[The Nazis] know that victory for us means victory for religion.
And they could not tolerate that. The world is too small to provide adequate
living space for both Hitler and God.”

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He was
right. It is impossible for tyranny, terror and totalitarianism to be
carried out in the name of God. In the absence of God, even devout Christians
like myself thirst for control and narcissistic self-validation. Every
one of us harbors a certain degree of Sinisterism, but it is contemporary
liberals who are pompously wearing their Sinisterist hearts on their sleeves.

Christian Lee
Hartsock, 19, is a screenwriter, filmmaker and political columnist. He
has been a guest on Sharon Hughes' talk radio show, and his columns have
been run in various newspapers, publications and websites including American
Daily, Newsmax, Political Vanguard, Renew America, The Berkeley Daily
Planet, the World Magazine blog, TheConservativeVoice.com and others.

A native of Oakland,
California, Chris is currently a student at Brooks Institute of Photography
in Ventura where he is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film and
Video Production. He is at work on a film called "Separation," a documentary
on the secular left's attempts to purge Christianity from the public square.

As
I mentioned earlier, when liberals are not trying to pass Nazism off as
“fascism,” they are attempting to pass it off as an extreme form of “conservatism”
and an inexorable byproduct of Christianity.